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Critic Reviews
Dec 28, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Woliner’s aim isn’t to deliberately prank Goldman; instead, what the series represents is the televisual equivalent to Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. By engaging with Goldman, and helping him “tell his story,” Woliner, his collaborators, and even the audience are inevitably drawn into the experience; it’s one man’s tale, but by observing it, we’re all somehow a part of it.
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Dec 28, 2022
Season 1 Review:
An undeniably fascinating, invariably uncomfortable piece of television... I don’t think I laughed once at Paul T. Goldman, but I found its presentation surprising at times, and there’s something compelling to its undercurrent of sadness, especially in light of the ongoing debate over exploitation in the true-crime space.
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Dec 28, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It is ridiculous, it is sad, and it is often deeply uncomfortable, even if it’s unclear whether more of our ire should be directed at Goldman or at Woliner, or if we should be mad at all. ... Whatever moral quandaries the show presents, it’s never dull. ... The surface aspects of Paul T. Goldman are definitely fun, maybe enough to carry viewers through the whole thing.
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Jan 31, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Paul’s undependability is soon matched by Woliner’s. It’s hard not to have qualms about the director setting up his protagonist to receive so much undeserved attention and sympathy, particularly as Paul’s ugliness toward women comes into sharper focus. ... By the end, there’s no reason to trust Woliner any more than his subject.
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Dec 28, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Having Goldman play out his story seems at first like a scheme worthy of “Nathan for You,” the series on which Fielder placed notably odd or curious people in situations designed to prise out their unique qualities. Here, though, the game seems a little too obvious, as there’s no second beat here, no reason to have Goldman play it all out other than to explore an unusual personality. For a show with a premise that seems chewily self-referential, here, too much of the motivation in finding Goldman a perfect subject seems to exist on the surface.
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